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The institutional tendency to resist mandate revision even when empirical conditions have changed substantially. Fixation emerges from structural features—career incentives, identity investment, reputational costs of revision—rather than individual obstinacy.
Proposing a sunset review of an equity program triggers institutional resistance not because current staff disagree with evidence, but because revision threatens legitimacy narratives they've built careers around.
LGIT-LD Section 3.2